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Definition: QUESTOR |
QUESTORNoun1. An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state. |
Etymology: Questor \Ques"tor\, noun. [Latin expression quaestor, contr. from quaesitor, from quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, ask: compare to the French expression questeur.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
QUESTOR | English | Queen's University Environmental S&T Research Centre | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Treasurer | Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: QUESTOR |
| English words defined with "QUESTOR": Questorship. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "QUESTOR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (quaestor), Portuguese (quaestor). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Questor Tapes (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "QUESTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "QUESTOR" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
questor | 20 |
magazine questor | 8 |
questor tape | 7 |
management questor | 6 |
international questor | 4 |
questor partner | 2 |
anime questor | 2 |
company management questor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "QUESTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | questeur (Quaestor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estorquay cuestor (quaestor). (various references) квестор (quaestor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUESTOR": questors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "QUESTOR": requestor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "QUESTOR": requestors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "QUESTOR" (pronounced 'Ques"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Devotor, fetor, Fictor, Flector, foetor, Glossator, IMPOSTOR, laudator, lector, Lentor, Levator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: quoters, roquets, torques. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-q-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ouster, outers, quoter, quotes, roques, roquet, routes, souter, stoure, toques, torque. | |
-2 letters: euros, outer, outre, quest, quote, roque, roset, rotes, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, store, stour, toque, tores, torse, torus, tours, touse, trues. | |
-3 letters: eros, erst, euro, ores, orts, ours, oust, outs, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, roue, rout, rues, ruse. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-q-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: croquets, equators, quaestor, questors, torquers. | |
+2 letters: grotesque, paroquets, quaestors, quartzose, quatorzes, requestor, sobriquet, torqueses, turquoise. | |
+3 letters: coquetries, croquettes, grotesques, questioner, quixotries, reconquest, requestors, sobriquets, soubriquet, turquoises. | |
+4 letters: corequisite, grotesquely, grotesquery, preconquest, quaternions, quatrefoils, quercitrons, questionary, questioners, reconquests, requisition, soubriquets, terraqueous, tourniquets, triquetrous. | |
+5 letters: corequisites, equivocators, forequarters, grotesquerie, requisitions. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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